Shoe rack



Sept. 20, 1927. 1,

c. s. ANGERS SHOE RACK Filed April 16. 1923 FIG. 1

IG; 6 FIG. 5

w/ TN ESSES Patented Sept. 20, 1927.

a .STA r55 CHARLES S. ANGERS, OF 'MILWAUKEE. WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF

A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

rA'rERsoN, NEW JERSEY,

SHOE RACK.

Application filed April 16, 1923. Serial l i'o. 632,354.

This invention relates to shoe racks such as are commonly used in shoe factories for of the type referred to, the racks are usually heretofore constructed operators frequently have had their fingers injured by having them caught between the frames of two racks. The object of this invention is to provide a rack of improved and simplified construction by use of which both of these troubles will be to a large extent, or Wholly, avoided.

In view of this object and as illustrated, 26 the invention provides an improved rack comprising a rack frame having at each corner thereof a novel caster frame embodying a bumper, a caster and guards for protecting the caster.

The above and other features of the invention will be described inthe specification and pointed out in the claim. 7

' Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like characters of reference indi- Gate the same parts in different views- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a shoe rack constructed in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a detail view of one corner thereof showing the side of thecaster-frame;

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the end of 11 and at its corners is mounted on swiveled casters 12. Each caster 12 is mounted in or attached 'to a caster frame 13 preferablycons sting of a metal casting shaped to fit the right-angular corner'formed by the braced angle iron bottom and upright of the rack frame 10. For this purpose the caster frame comprises a bottom, an upstanding side cheek 14 to fit outside of the upright flange of the bottom piece of the rack frame and an upstanding end part 15 to fit around the end of the. upright of the frame, all of these parts of the casterframe being at right angles to each other. The bottom portion of the caster frame may be secured to the bottom of the rack frame by means of bolts 16. A-pair of downwardly and inwardly extending guard members 17, preferably integral with the caster frame and projecting from the bottom member thereof, are positioned as close to the caster as convenient without interfering with its swiveling action and extend down to near the floor, in practice about half an inch from the floor. The broad rounded outer surfaces of these guard members 17, strengthened by the central inner web, form rack lifting cams which will engage and ride over obstructions in the path of the casters, such as the raised edge of an elevator floor, and so lift the shoe rack and the shoe racks of ordinary construction.

Furthermore, the sides 14 and ends 15 of the caster frames extend beyond the rack frame a .considerable distance to form bumpers to strike parts of other shoe racks,

either when run side by side or end-t0 end, and so prevent the rack frames coming close enough together to pinch the fingers between them.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In arack, a rack frame, a caster frame secured to each corner thereof, a caster mounted in each caster frame, a bumper projection at the end and the side of each caster frame mm 19 1? F E v jure the caster, the caster frame, bumper projection and guard members at each corner of the rack frame being of unitary construction.

In testimony whereof, I aifix mysignature.

CHARLES S. ANGERS. 

